GILLET, Charles William, a Representative from New York; born in Addison, Steuben County,
N.Y., November 26, 1840; attended the public schools and the Delaware Literary
Institute, Franklin, N.Y.; was graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.,
in 1861; enlisted as a private in the Eighty-sixth Regiment, New York Volunteer
Infantry, in August 1861; promoted to adjutant of the regiment in November
1861; was wounded and honorably discharged for physical disability in 1863;
engaged in the manufacture of sash, doors, and blinds in Addison; appointed
postmaster of Addison on June 15, 1878, and served until July 26, 1886; elected
as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (March
4, 1893-March 3, 1905); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
of Agriculture (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-seventh Congresses), Committee on
Public Buildings and Grounds (Fifty-eighth Congress); declined to be a
candidate for renomination in 1904; died in New York City December 31, 1908;
interment in the Rural Cemetery, Addison, N.Y.